European travel this summer was always going to be tricky, with a pent up demand, the high costs of tickets, the highest number of flights in the skies since 2019 and the threat of an air traffic controllers strike. That news just got a little worse if you’re traveling through London Gatwick over the next two months—named this week as the airport with the most delays and cancellations in June 2023.
They all fly again. British is expected to make 25 million trips through the air until September, as reported through the time of the United Kingdom. A giant majority addresses Europe.
Similarly, the hopconsistant with the online reserve page said that the United States trips to Europe have higher up to 20% in the figures and costs of 2019 are higher in five years, an average of $ 1 two hundred according to the ticket. European hotels are also 37% more dear than last year, an average night that costs $ 205.
Eurocontrol, the organization that governs army flights and advertising throughout the European sky hopes to administer up to 37,500 flights in peak days and face more than 96,000 pilot messages on a basis. Things are also a little more tense than the same age because 20% of the European sky is out of limits due to the war in Ukraine.
EuroControl has particularly singled out Reims and Marseille in France, as well as Athens and Budapest as being places where it is expecting what it calls an “overload” of planes, where there may be delays or even rerouting to avoid busy areas at busy times.
Eurocontrol has also issued warnings for London, Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, Nicosia, Warsaw and Zagreb, on Fridays and on the weekends of summer.
Willie Walsh, leader of the International Air Transport Association, said the flight disturbances in June were far beyond what was expected at that time of year.
The rights of the passengers, Airhelp, analyzed the European airports that had more than 5,000 flights in June to take a look at the delays of more than 15 minutes and any cancellation.
The worst was London Gatwick (LGW) with 54% of its flights disrupted (according to these data points). The nine other airports that fared badly were Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH), Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG), Antalya (AYT), Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen (SAW), Rome Fiumicino (FCO), Manchester (MAN), Milano Malpensa (MXP) and Frankfurt (FRA). Manchester, Milano and Frankfurt all suffered delayed flights at around 43%.
Passengers looking for a smoother ride could try Vaanta airport in Helsinki, Finland, where just 18% of its flights were disrupted, using the same data points. Other airports that fared well in the review were Dusseldorf (DUS), Oslo Gardermoen Airport (OSL) and Warsaw Chopin (WAW) with around just 23% of flights delayed in June. Beyond that, Vienna (VIE), Madrid-Barajas (MAD), Barcelona-El Prat (BCN), Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) and Istanbul Havalimani (IST) came out well. Berlin’s Brandenburg airport (BER) rounded out the top ten best airports in June for delays with 34% of flights disrupted.
No matter where you travel this summer, there’s one undeniable rule you can stick to over time, having the time yourself. EuroControl will tell you that every minute and every minute at the beginning you leave on the first flight in the morning will charge 4 minutes until the end of the day.
This can upload until a long time until the end of the day and is the only explanation for which anyone to minimize delays can be worse than traveling on the first morning flight.
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